sounding board

Questions about sounding board

What does sounding board mean?

sounding board means "a person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sounding board?

Close synonyms include soundboard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sounding board a common word?

sounding board is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.